MIDTERMS

• Who said this definition:

  a process aimed at encouraging people to want to be healthy, to know how to stay healthy, to do what they can individually and collectively to maintain health and to seek help when needed.

  Alma-Ata Declaration, 1978
• What are the aims of Health Education?

  1. Health promotion and disease prevention 2. Early diagnosis and management
• What are the objectives of health education?

  Informing and motivating people
• People are informed about the different diseases, their etiology and how to prevent them.

  Informing People
• defined as “combination of forces which initiate, direct and sustain behavior”

  Motivation
• What are the principles of Health Education

  1. Credibility
  2. Interest
  3. Participation
  4. Comprehension
  5. Reinforcement
  6. Motivation
  7. Learning by doing
  8. Known to unknown
  9. Setting an example
  10. Good human relations
  11. Feedback
  12. Guiding in action
  13. Community Leader
  14. Soil, seed, sower
• Health educator should identify the “felt needs” of the people and then prepare a program that they can actively participate in to make it successful

  INterest
• Health educator should encourage people to participate in the program.

  Participation
• “the fundamental desire for learning in an individual”

  Motivation
• Should first determine the level of literacy and understanding of the audience and act accordingly

  Comprehension
• This is the principle that refers to the repetition needed in health education

  Reinforcement
• "booster dose in health education

  Reinforcement
• Is accompanied by doing new things it is better instilled in the minds of people.

  Learning by doing
• The existing knowledge of the people can be used as the basic step up on which new knowledge can be placed

  Known to unknown
• This principle states that the health educator should have good personal qualities and should be able to maintain friendly relations with the people

  Good Human Relation
• Concerned with development of skills and action.

  Guiding in to action
• can be used to reach the people of the community and to convince them about the need for health education

  Community Leaders
• one who provides basic community health care services for promotion of health, prevention of illness, simple treatment and rehabilitation.

  Community Health Worker
• What are the qualities of a health worker

  1. Open
  2. Tactful
  3. Coordinator
  4. Objective
  5. Good Listener
  6. Efficient
  7. Flexible
  8. Critical Thinker
• one who presides over an assembly, meeting or decision in a subtle manner; does not embarrass but gives good criticism.

  Tactful
• brings into consonance or harmony the community’s health care activity.

  Coordinator
• accepts needs for joint planning and decision relative to health care in a particular situation not resistant to change.

  Open
• always available for the participants to voice out their sentiments and needs.

  Good Listener
• Knowledgeable about everything relevant to his practice; has necessary skills expected of him.

  Efficient
• decides on what has been analyzed

  Critical Thinker
• What are the functions of a Health Worker

  1. Community Health Service Provider
  2. Member of a Team
  3. Co-researcher
  4. Health Counselor
  5. Facilitator
  6. Health Educator
• Provides health counseling including emotional support to individuals, family, group and community.

  Health Counselor
• Helps plan a comprehensive health program with the people and continues and continues guidance and supervisory assistance

  Facilitator
• Provides the community with the stimulation necessary for a wider or more complex study of problems and enforce the community to do prompt and intelligent reporting of epidemiologic investigations of diseases.

  Co-researcher
• Helps make multiple services which the family receives in the course of health care, coordinated, continuous and comprehensive as possible

  Member of a team
• the one who improves the health of the people by employing various methods or scientific procedures to stimulate, arouse and guide people to healthful ways of living.

  Health Educator
• provision of knowledge

  Information
• utilizing interview techniques in creating change and influencing people

  Individual or person-to-person approach
• to sensitize or create awareness among a number of people.

  Mass communication
• TRAITS & QUALITIES OF A HEALTH EDUCATOR

  1. Efficient
  2. Good Communicator
  3. Good Listener
  4. Keen Observer
  5. Systematic
  6. Creative/Resourceful
  7. Analytical/Critical Thinker
  8. Tactful
  9. Knowledgeable
  10. Open
  11. With Sense of Humor
  12. Change of Agent
• plans with the people, organizes, conducts, directs health education activities according to the needs of the community.

  Efficient
• provides participants with clear and relevant information.

  Good communicator
• hears what is being said and what is behind the words.

  Good Listener
• keeps eye on the proceedings, processes and participants behavior.

  Keen observer
• knows how to put in sequence or logical order the parts of the sessions.

  Systematic